Prague’s First Half-Marathon Ballot Drew 70,000 Applications in Three Weeks
The random draw for the April 3, 2027 race takes place next week, and every applicant hears by Aug. 21. The 2026 edition was capped at 17,000 runners.
Race Coverage, Running 101
Every Track Result From Day 4 of the 2026 European Championships
Amy Hunt completed the sprint double with 200m gold, Mark English won an Irish 800m title, and Gesa Felicitas Krause took the steeplechase on the fourth night in Birmingham. Full fields from every track final, with field, combined, and para events left out.
Track and Field
The Deepest UTMB Field in Years Is Missing Its Fastest Woman
UTMB’s World Series Finals return to Chamonix on Friday, Aug. 28, with Kilian Jornet, Jim Walmsley and Courtney Dauwalter all entered. The one name absent belongs to the woman who holds the course record.
Trail and Ultras
Tokyo Marathon 2027 Entry Is Now Open. Here’s What the 10% Acceptance Rate Really Means
The general lottery for the March 7, 2027 race runs through Aug. 28. Around 300,000 runners typically apply for roughly 30,000 ballot places, and they are not all drawing from the same pool.
Jessy Carveth
The Marathon Is A Giant Physiology Experiment
Millions of runners reveal how critical speed, durability, race-day conditions, and human behavior combine to shape 26.2 miles.
Run Long Run Healthy
Ultrarunning Is Booming. Wildfire Keeps Taking Its Summer Race Days.
Fire scrapped the Fat Dog 120 and Colorado’s Ouray 100 this summer, and even the races that survived are running on rerouted courses and air-quality thresholds.
Trail and Ultras
Why Phil Gore’s 168-Hour Solo Run Won’t Count as an Official Record
Backyard ultra’s reigning world champion will try to run 168 laps in seven straight days at a charity event in Western Australia, a distance no sanctioned race could record.
Trail and Ultras
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